Wrapped in Brown paper and tied with string, then stored for over 100 years…
This is exciting.
I’m writing this as I’m opening and going through them.
To start with, we have:
- 23-30 December 1916
Showing age, but that adds to the magic.
Great adverts for 7 pages
I should mention that these are LARGE magazines (16 x 12 inches) and I’m just ~in wonder~
Wish I could read French
Yes. Turns out that those advertisements, along with a small comic strip, is a 14-page cover for the actual magazine, which is clean & bright white. So, what we have is a 28-page magazine with one page I thought was a pull-out poster of ‘Le General Nivelle’, but appears to be a loose page.
There is an 8-page supplement enclosed in the magazine, together with a lot of great photos.
- ‘NOEL 1916’ ~ Powerful cover, which has come loose. Begging to be framed, perhaps.
Ok, it’s the 16 December issue. Same as before with a 14-page cover for the magazine at the core.
Oh, wow. We now do have a pull out print, ready to be framed (see photo) Signed Marcel Baschet 1915
Two small supplements.
- 9 December 1916
We have a double page pull-out!
Of a map… Bulgaria, Hungry, Ukraine (see photo)
Also a pull-out 4-page obituaries (?) (see photo) and supplement
- 2 December 1916 ~ ‘Le Tank’
Fascinating insight into life during WWI.
From here on in, we have pretty much the standard issue (gallery supplement) which are all in the same condition as the above magazines as seen in the photos.
We have every weekly issue, going back to 1st January.
The second bundle we’ll leave tied up for you to have that pleasure and which seems to house all issues from 1915
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